Democrats Refuse to Say 'So Help Me God' While Swearing-In at House Committee

Steve Cohen backed the Democrats refusing to to say 'so help me God' during the swearing-in

Democrats refused to say "so help me God" during the swearing-in oath before testifying to a House committee this week, by simply omitting it when they were sworn in.

The seemingly pre-prepared move by the Dems sparked a furious reaction from Republican ranking member Rep. Mike Johnson.

Video captured the moment at the beginning of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights & Liberties and shows Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) starting the hearing by asking three people to be sworn-in before testifying.

“Do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony that you’re about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief?” Cohen asked the trio.

They all said "yes," then left a silent pause before sitting down again.

During the swearing-in, Democrats purposely omitted the line 'so help me God'

Before the witnesses could respond, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) asked to speak.

He then said: “If any witness objects he should not be asked to identify himself. We do not have religious tests for office or for anything else.”

“And we should let it go with that,” he added.

Cohen then moved the hearing on without any of the witnesses taking the oath with the phrase “so help me God" included.

According to the Epoch Times, Johnson on Feb. 6 shared another clip that showed Nadler asking witnesses to take the oath while leaving out “so help me God” at a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing earlier in the month.

Johnson objected and Nadler repeated the oath with the phrase.

After Dems' failed proposal to strip "So help me God" from the witness oath in the Natural Resources Committee last week, I noticed the clause was being left out at other committees.

A top Republican congresswoman characterized the edits to the oath as indicative of a hard left shift in the Democratic Party.

“It is incredible, but not surprising, that the Democrats would try to remove God from committee proceedings in one of their first acts in the majority,” House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told Fox News.